CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

¹Let us branch it out in particulars, and show you wherein a Godly man, remembering he is not of the world doth express his heavenly Conversation, and that emptieth it self into these streams.

¹Let us branch it out in particulars, and shew you wherein a Godly man, remembring he is not of the world doth expresse his heavenly Conversation, and that emptieth it self into these streams.

1. 1Which consists in these particulars.

¹First, He mortifieth and moderateth his heart and affections even to lawful things, 1 Cor. 7. The time is short, Those that marry must be as if they married not; Grace doth alter the palate of Nature, so that like old Barzillai they take not that delight which once they had in the comforts of the world; Nature is content with few things, but Grace with the one necessary thing which is God himself; If then thy heart be like a water overrunning the banks, and so be muddied, stop thy self, and remember thou art not of this world, and therefore thou darest not over-love or over-desire, or go beyond thy bounds; Thou hast indeed these mercies but as if thou hadst them not; Truly this is an excellent discovery of an heavenly heart, when this Ivy doth not so cleave to thee as to consume thee; When thou canst so eat, drink, and enjoy all earthly and worldly Comforts, that yet thou do not distemper and disease thy soul.

¹First, He mortifieth and moderateth his heart and affections even to lawfull things,